walkover

 walkover

In tennis, a walkover occurs when a player automatically advances to the next round without playing because their opponent is ill, injured, or subject to a code of conduct penalty.

 

muleskinner

 

muleskinner (plural muleskinners)

1. (slang) A mule driver; the whip used by such a driver.

Treif

 Treif (also written trayf, treyf or traif) is the Yiddish word that means “unkosher.”

Autonoetic

 Autonoetic consciousness is the human ability to mentally place oneself in the past and future (i.e. mental time travel) or in counterfactual situations (i.e. alternative outcomes), and to thus be able to examine one's own thoughts.

cockalorum

 

cockalorum (countable and uncountable, plural cockalorums)

(countable) A menial yet self-important person; a person who makes empty boasts.

Cinnabar

 Cinnabar (/ˈsɪnəˌbɑːr/) or cinnabarite (/sɪnəˈbɑːraɪt/), from the Ancient Greek: κιννάβαρι (kinnabari), is the bright scarlet to brick-red form of mercury(II) sulfide (HgS). It is the most common source ore for refining elemental mercury, and is the historic source for the brilliant red or scarlet pigment termed vermilion and associated red mercury pigments

 

 

discompose

 

discompose (third-person singular simple present discomposes, present participle discomposing, simple past and past participle discomposed)

1. (transitive) To destroy the composure of; to disturb or agitate.
2. (transitive) To disarrange, or throw into a state of disorder.

 

church.

one word expression to show approval of a situation.

corrugaphone

 The whirly tube, corrugaphone, or bloogle resonator, also sold as Free-Ka in the 1960s-1970s, is an experimental musical instrument which consists of a corrugated (ribbed) plastic tube or hose (hollow flexible cylinder), open at both ends and possibly wider at one end (bell), the thinner of which is rotated in a circle to play.

 

Gastarbeiter

 Gastarbeiter (lit. German for 'guest worker') are foreign or migrant workers, particularly those who had moved to West Germany between 1955 and 1973, seeking work as part of a formal guest worker program (Gastarbeiterprogramm).

The term is widely used in Russia (Russian: гастарбайтер) to refer to foreign workers from post-USSR or third-world countries.

 

antiremoval

 

antiremoval (comparative more antiremoval, superlative most antiremoval)

1. (historical) Opposing the forcible removal of Native American groups from their traditional homelands.

ullage

 

ullage (countable and uncountable, plural ullages)

1. In a wine bottle, the empty space between the cork and the top of the wine.
2. In a cask or barrel, the empty space, occupied by air, that is created by not completely filling the cask or barrel, or through spillage.
3. In an industrial setting, the empty space in a tank, especially as for fuel.

slipslop

 

slipslop (countable and uncountable, plural slipslops)

1. Nonsense; gibberish; twaddle.
2. Poor writing; text that is imprecise, weak, or overly informal.
3. A quantity of worthless things; mess.
4. Watery food or drink that is of inferior quality.

weltanschauung

 

weltanschauung

1. A person's or a group's conception, philosophy or view of the world; a worldview.

   Your background and experiences must give you a unique weltanschauung.

negatory

 

negatory

1. (military, CB slang) No.

microgilbert

 

The gilbert (Symbol: Gb) is an obsolete unit used in practical cgs and emu cgs systems to measure magnetization.^[1] The unit is named for English physicist William Gilbert. A microgilbert is one millionth of a gilbert.

sasanqua

 Camellia sasanqua, with common name sasanqua camellia, is a species of Camellia native to China and Japan. It is usually found growing up to an altitude of 900 metres. 

 

dynamitard

 

A dynamitard was a person who used explosives for violence against the State, and is a niche metaphor for a revolutionary in politics, culture or social affairs. 

 In nineteenth century politics the term came to be used, particularly by George Bernard Shaw, as metonymy for those who chose violent struggle — as opposed to gradual means — for achieving social revolution.

darkle

 

darkle (third-person singular simple present darkles, present participle darkling, simple past and past participle darkled)

1. To be dark; to be visible only darkly.
1. To become dark; to show indistinctly.

Aquitard

 Aquitard:

Poorly permeable underground layer that limits the flow of groundwater from one aquifer to another.

noceur

 

noceur m (plural noceurs, feminine noceuse)

1. party animal, reveller
2. one who sleeps late or not at all; or, one who stays out late to revel or party

chef de mission

 In diplomatic usage, head of mission (HOM) or chief of mission (COM) from the French "chef de mission diplomatique" (CMD) is the head of a diplomatic representation, such as an ambassador, high commissioner, nuncio, chargé d'affaires, permanent representative, and to a consul-general or consul. Chef de Mission is also the title of the team manager of a national delegation in major international multi-discipline sporting events, such as the Olympic Games.

 

Koinonia

 Koinonia (/ˌkɔɪnoʊˈniːə/) is a transliterated form of the Greek word κοινωνία, which refers to concepts such as fellowship, joint participation, the share which one has in anything, a gift jointly contributed, a collection, a contribution.

Hypophora

 Hypophora, also referred to as anthypophora or antipophora, is a figure of speech in which the speaker poses a question and then answers the question. Hypophora can consist of a single question answered in a single sentence, a single question answered in a paragraph or even a section, or a series of questions, each answered in subsequent paragraphs.

Trifluvian

 

Trifluvian (plural Trifluvians)

1. (Quebec) A resident of Three Rivers (Trois-Rivières) or its surrounding county.
   
   
   
   

vinculum

 A vinculum (from Latin vinculum 'fetter, chain, tie') is a horizontal line used in mathematical notation for various purposes.

 

 

centauromachy

battle between centaurs or between centaurs and men.

knitaholic

 

knitaholic (plural knitaholics)

1. (informal) A knitting enthusiast.
2. A person with an addiction to knitahol.

 

jadrool

 

jadrool (plural jadrools)

(slang, US, Italian American) A loser; a bum. 

From Italian cidrule, a dialectal form of cetriolo (“fool”, literally “cucumber”).

 

hilum

 

In botany, a hilum (pronounced /ˈhaɪləm/) is a scar or mark left on a seed coat by the former attachment to the ovary wall or to the funiculus (which in turn attaches to the ovary wall). On a bean seed, the hilum is called the "eye".

For some species of fungus, the hilum is the microscopic indentation left on a spore when it separates from the sterigma of the basidium.

 

pantropical

 

A pantropical ("all tropics") distribution is one which covers tropical regions of both hemispheres.  Examples include caecilians, modern sirenians and the plant genera Acacia and Bacopa.

Neotropical is a zoogeographic term that covers a large part of the Americas, roughly from Mexico and the Caribbean southwards (including cold regions in southernmost South America).

Palaeotropical refers to geographical occurrence. For a distribution to be palaeotropical a taxon must occur in tropical regions in the Old World.